Converting Offices Into Homes: What Works
Every few years the same proposal returns with fresh urgency: the city has empty offices and a housing shortage, so […]
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Street Trees: Costs, Benefits and Who Pays
A street tree is one of the few pieces of public infrastructure that becomes more valuable every year it survives.
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How Cycle Lanes Change a Street
Few changes to a street provoke as much argument as a new cycle lane. Before it is built, the debate
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Pocket Parks: Why Small Green Spaces Matter
A pocket park is a public green space so small that it would not register on most maps. A former
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The 15-Minute City, Explained
Few planning ideas have travelled as fast, or been as widely misunderstood, as the 15-minute city. In a few years
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What Makes a City Walkable?
Almost every city claims to want to be walkable, and almost every city measures the wrong thing when it tries.
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Conservation areas: what they actually control, and what that costs
Conservation area designation is widely understood as a rule that says buildings must look old. That is not what it
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Density and daylight: the trade-off nobody fully resolves
Two things are simultaneously true about London development. More homes need to be built on the land available, which means
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Affordable housing means several different things at once
Few words in planning carry as much confusion as affordable. It is used in policy documents, committee reports, marketing material
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What a design and access statement is actually for
Most design and access statements are written at the wrong time, by the wrong person, for the wrong reader. They
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